VATICAN CITY >> If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week’s conclave, then things are not going to plan.

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the cardinals to choose the leader, which day of the week he’ll

A cardinal predicted that the selection process “will be short” for the next pope to succeed the late Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88 after months of health complications. Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez of El Salvador told ABC News on Friday that the Vatican is looking for “Francis 2” in a successor as cardinals prepare to kick off the conclave week.

President Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as pope as the mourning of Pope Francis continues and just days before the conclave to elect his successor is set to begin.

Now that Pope Francis has been laid to rest, there's a renewed fascination with the centuries-old traditions of the Vatican. Eyes are turned toward the secretive process that will determine his successor,